2001 AFL Season Round 7: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 11 May 2001 between Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs during round seven of the 2001 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted the Western Bulldogs at the MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. Chris Grant captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neale Daniher and the visitors were coached by Terry Wallace.

Melbourne (12.5.77) were defeated by the Western Bulldogs (15.17.107).

Match Details

Season: 2001 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Date: Friday 11 May 2001
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 32,299

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Western Bulldogs
Score: 12.5.77 - 15.17.107

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	4	.	4	6	.	5	9	.	5	12	.	5	12	.	5	(77)
Western Bulldogs	5	.	4	7	.	11	12	.	13	15	.	17	15	.	17	(107)
Margin	WBUL by 6			WBUL by 12			WBUL by 26			WBUL by 30			WBUL by 30
Duration	30:29			27:32			27:31			28:22			1:53:54

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Melbourne) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Western Bulldogs) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Chris Grant
Coach: Terry Wallace

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Allen (#10)
S. Hanley
D. Morris (#20)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Nathan Brown	WBUL	17	3
Scott West	WBUL	7	2
Matthew Robbins	WBUL	30	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Bruce, Cameron	?	?	3	0	12	11	1	4	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	3
28	Collins, Matthew	?	?	0	0	13	9	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
21	Febey, Steven	?	?	0	0	21	12	9	5	0	1	2	1	0	0	6	1
30	Godfrey, Simon	?	?	0	0	10	5	5	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0
18	Green, Brad	?	?	1	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
4	Grgic, Brent	?	?	0	0	20	10	10	6	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	0
27	Ingerson, Anthony	?	?	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
16	Johnstone, Travis	?	?	1	0	11	8	3	6	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	3
36	Leoncelli, Andrew	?	?	0	0	22	16	6	3	0	1	5	3	1	0	2	4
35	McDonald, Anthony	?	?	0	0	19	13	6	5	0	4	3	4	1	2	3	5
9	Neitz, David (c)	?	?	2	0	6	3	3	1	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	0
8	Nicholson, Alistair	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	2	5	1	1	1	0	0	3	1
43	Rigoni, Guy	?	?	0	0	10	8	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4
24	Robertson, Russell	?	?	3	0	10	8	2	4	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	4
5	Schwarz, David	?	?	0	0	22	12	10	8	4	2	2	2	1	1	0	6
42	Walsh, Peter	?	?	0	0	10	5	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
10	Ward, Daniel	?	?	0	0	13	9	4	4	0	4	3	5	0	1	1	2
31	Wheatley, Paul	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
45	Whelan, Matthew	?	?	0	0	17	11	6	5	0	4	0	1	2	0	3	1
34	White, Jeff	?	?	0	0	14	6	8	3	13	2	1	4	0	2	2	1
22	Woewodin, Shane	?	?	0	1	23	15	8	2	1	6	6	3	1	1	0	7
13	Yze, Adem	?	?	2	1	18	16	2	6	0	1	4	1	0	0	0	4
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				12	5	296	192	104	92	24	36	32	37	8	10	36	50

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
31	Alvey, Mark	?	?	0	0	20	16	4	6	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	6
18	Bartlett, Trent	?	?	1	0	5	3	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
17	Brown, Nathan	?	?	4	4	29	20	9	12	0	2	1	6	0	2	0	6
19	Contessa, Adam	?	?	0	0	6	0	6	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
26	Cox, Simon	?	?	1	1	19	14	5	12	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	10
14	Darcy, Luke	?	?	0	0	22	14	8	8	16	1	2	3	1	1	1	2
12	Dooley, Paul	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
10	Eagleton, Nathan	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	6	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	4
32	Ellis, Craig	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	7	0	4	2	1	2	0	1	2
4	Garlick, Simon	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	1	0	3	3	4	0	1	1	4
3	Grant, Chris (c)	?	?	1	1	21	15	6	6	1	1	4	1	0	0	4	2
8	Hahn, Mitch	?	?	0	0	12	10	2	6	0	1	0	2	0	1	5	0
22	Harrison, Ben	?	?	1	0	22	17	5	9	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	7
9	Hudson, Paul	?	?	1	1	7	5	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
25	Hunter, Kingsley	?	?	1	0	10	7	3	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0
6	Johnson, Brad	?	?	2	5	27	19	8	14	0	1	3	1	0	0	3	4
35	Kretiuk, Steven	?	?	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	2	1	0	1	0	2	0
23	McMahon, Jordan	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	Penny, Luke	?	?	0	0	15	13	2	3	0	4	0	1	1	1	6	1
30	Robbins, Matthew	?	?	0	0	21	16	5	6	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	1
5	Smith, Rohan	?	?	2	3	16	12	4	10	0	2	1	3	0	0	0	4
7	West, Scott	?	?	1	0	31	15	16	7	0	4	5	4	2	2	1	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				15	17	345	235	110	131	18	35	30	33	10	8	32	57

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	02:19
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	03:28
	WBUL	Chris Grant goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	05:21
	WBUL	Rohan Smith goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	07:45
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	10:04
	MELB	Shane Woewodin behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	12:00
	MELB	Brad Green goal	2.2.14	-	2.1.13	14:09
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	2.2.14	-	3.1.19	17:55
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	2.2.14	-	4.1.25	19:16
	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	2.2.14	-	4.2.26	21:01
	WBUL	Scott West goal	2.2.14	-	5.2.32	22:22
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	3.2.20	-	5.2.32	24:22
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	5.2.32	25:14
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	4.3.27	-	5.2.32	26:16
	WBUL	Chris Grant behind	4.3.27	-	5.3.33	27:49
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	4.4.28	-	5.3.33	29:16
	WBUL	Rohan Smith behind	4.4.28	-	5.4.34	30:26
Q2	WBUL	Paul Hudson behind	4.4.28	-	5.5.35	03:25
	WBUL	Rushed behind	4.4.28	-	5.6.36	04:14
	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	4.4.28	-	5.7.37	06:03
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	5.4.34	-	5.7.37	09:08
	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	5.4.34	-	5.8.38	13:01
	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	5.4.34	-	5.9.39	13:57
	WBUL	Simon Cox goal	5.4.34	-	6.9.45	14:55
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	5.4.34	-	7.9.51	20:37
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	6.4.40	-	7.9.51	22:22
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	6.4.40	-	7.10.52	23:28
	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	6.4.40	-	7.11.53	24:26
	MELB	Rushed behind	6.5.41	-	7.11.53	25:47
Q3	WBUL	Rohan Smith goal	6.5.41	-	8.11.59	01:10
	MELB	Cameron Bruce goal	7.5.47	-	8.11.59	04:35
	WBUL	Paul Hudson goal	7.5.47	-	9.11.65	06:37
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	8.5.53	-	9.11.65	08:27
	WBUL	Rohan Smith behind	8.5.53	-	9.12.66	12:16
	WBUL	Rushed behind	8.5.53	-	9.13.67	17:14
	WBUL	Ben Harrison goal	8.5.53	-	10.13.73	18:51
	MELB	Adem Yze goal	9.5.59	-	10.13.73	23:01
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	9.5.59	-	11.13.79	24:19
	WBUL	Trent Bartlett goal	9.5.59	-	12.13.85	26:18
Q4	MELB	David Neitz goal	10.5.65	-	12.13.85	03:32
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	10.5.65	-	12.14.86	04:51
	WBUL	Simon Cox behind	10.5.65	-	12.15.87	07:30
	WBUL	Kingsley Hunter goal	10.5.65	-	13.15.93	09:27
	WBUL	Nathan Brown goal	10.5.65	-	14.15.99	10:18
	MELB	Travis Johnstone goal	11.5.71	-	14.15.99	13:16
	MELB	David Neitz goal	12.5.77	-	14.15.99	14:44
	WBUL	Nathan Brown behind	12.5.77	-	14.16.100	25:08
	WBUL	Rohan Smith behind	12.5.77	-	14.17.101	26:32
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	12.5.77	-	15.17.107	28:20

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